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Food bringing together cultures: Students from around globe gather over international dishes

Opinion

Jiandong Xu photo Students mingle outside the Trojan Center ballrooms after a festival held by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association  Jiandong Xu  Stephen Case and his friends held a party in his house where the food strengthened relationships between cultures. Case and Yisong Huang prepared a Chinese dish called Mapo Toufu. Case is a finance major from Birmingham and was a junior in the spring. Yisong Huang is a journalism major from Wuxi city, Jiangsu province, China, who was a sophomore. “Stephen has great learning ability, and he likes…

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Annual ISCO Festival brings international flavor to Troy

Trojan Living

Georgia Blanchard Chief Copy Editor The International Student Cultural Organization (ISCO) held its annual ISCO Festival Thursday, Nov. 15, featuring food and entertainment from cultures all over the world.  Everyone was invited to attend, and the event was almost completely sold out, with about 300 people attending.  According to Matthew Knopps, a junior accounting major from Pell City and the treasurer of the club, ISCO members worked the whole fall semester and part of the previous spring semester to put together the festival.  “It’s a lot of work; we have…

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Students celebrate Dashain festival

Trojan Living

Lirona Joshi Staff Writer The Nepalese Student Association (NSA) celebrated the Dashain festival on Saturday, Oct. 7. The festival commemorates the goddess Durga from Hindu mythology and celebrates the victory of good over evil. “Dashain is a festival of coming together as a community and merrymaking,” said Nischal Aryal, a sophomore computer science major from Kathmandu, Nepal, and president of the NSA. “Dashain for us means coming together as a community, and today with this program we tried to bring our Troy family together.” The event was insightful to the…

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Famed piddlers to bring ‘lost art’ to campus

Trojan Living

Sable Riley Arts & Entertainment Editor Madina Seytmuradova Staff Writer Masters of storytelling, the Pike Piddlers, are putting on several performances on campus this weekend. A single free concert by Josh Goforth, a member of Pike Piddlers and nationally recognized storyteller and musician, is set for Friday, Jan. 27, from noon to 12:50 p.m. in the Trojan Center Theatre. For some students, attendance is required or strongly urged by their professors, according to Maryjo Cochran, professor of broadcast journalism and communication studies, calling the event a “unique” opportunity for students…

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